Example sentences of "as [pron] try [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I return to the knifeblade , flexing gently under my weight as I try to shift my centre of gravity as far as possible over my feet to protect the belay . |
| 2 | Erm if I knew the pages in the report as well as I try to know my bible I could point you to another place Moderator where er |
| 3 | Now , as I tried to cure my asthma , I gave up smoking altogether . |
| 4 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 5 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 6 | But as I tried to follow his instructions , keeping my fists up and my chin tucked in and learning a new kind of dance on the balls of my feet , the sight of his bare , hairless chest , so brown and muscular , would suddenly fill me with more than muscular weakness , and I felt I would collapse , not under the playful blows he landed on my discombobulated body , but under the sheer spell of his magnificence . |
| 7 | The windows were tightly shut , and the rooms smelled stuffy , but not damp , though the drawers of the chest stuck as I tried to pull them open . |
| 8 | While Uncle Ted sat outside in the car Jean charged straight into the bedroom , pushing me aside as I tried to protect my parents ' privacy . |
| 9 | But she avoided my lips , so that I brushed her cheek , and as I tried to find her mouth she said , ‘ No , Kit . |
| 10 | There was a smell of lemon like bath-salts and she could hear the slap , slap , slap of flesh against flesh as somebody tried to stimulate her circulation . |
| 11 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 12 | Your hands clutch at the gaping wound as you try to stop your entrails spilling into the slime of the sewer . ’ |
| 13 | If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it . |
| 14 | If you can soften your water then it will be easy enough to acidify it using peat filtration ; if you do n't soften your water then the dissolved salts will buffer it back to neutral/alkaline as fast as you try to acidify it . |
| 15 | When that word applies to you , obviously your image of yourself suffers as you try to separate who you are from what people think you are . |
| 16 | It often helps to hum the tune to yourself as you try to make your decisions . |
| 17 | But there was no mistaking the soft fragility of the body beneath his , or the fragrant silkiness of the long tresses brushing across his throat as she tried to turn her head . |
| 18 | In recent incidents , a youths stamped on a W P C's head as she tried to arrest them , and earlier this week an officer was injured when he and a colleague were attacked by a gang . |
| 19 | ‘ Why , Gina ? ’ he prompted again softly as she tried to arrange her jumbled thoughts to give a reason without betraying how deeply hurt she felt . |
| 20 | Her heart sank as she tried to negotiate her way between the truth and a lie . |
| 21 | Her breath sawed as she tried to control her tears , while Gina waited despairingly , knowing what the outcome had been . |
| 22 | Her voice faded and she felt bitterly ashamed as she tried to control her rising panic . |
| 23 | One elderly juror , whose house had burned down eight months before North appeared , said she tuned in a little to the hearings as she tried to sort everything out , but ‘ it was just like I was focussing on ‘ The Three Stooges ’ or something . ’ |
| 24 | Frowning , she looked down and began to idly trace intricate patterns on the table-top with her finger as she tried to puzzle it out . |
| 25 | Lying there in his bed , she was suddenly beset by wild , crazy images of lying there in his arms , and , even as she tried to block them out , her body grew warm with the memory of the moment when he 'd kissed her in the make-up room . |
| 26 | Driven into a corner , she panicked , her arms flailing desperately as she tried to wrench herself free , but he held on tight . |
| 27 | It did n't seem very likely , and she frowned as she tried to view herself objectively . |
| 28 | Rachel 's eyes lit up as she tried to take it from him . |
| 29 | She could see the three robed figures , watching impassively as she tried to force her hands through the gold-flecked cloud that surrounded her . |
| 30 | She was n't going to let him affect her like this — never again ! she told herself desperately , taking a deep breath as she tried to ignore her racing pulse . |